All of Paris

I took these from the Arch de Triomphe last Sunday after church. It was the last free Sunday for the Arch until next fall, so I'm glad it was nice and sunny! It took 3 panos- one of the east side, which is the middle of Paris, one of the newer part of Paris, and one all the way around. First, the one all the way around. Because the arch has a big old structure in the middle of it (the arch is huge) I couldn't stand on the very middle. Therefore the all-the-way-around picture was impossible. My software did the best it could. You get the general idea, despite one of the streets showing up twice and another one being almost blotted out.


Here is the new part of Paris, with a modern arch


And here is the most interesting part, old Paris. Click on the photo to make it bigger so you can see the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the National Opera, the Sacré Coeur, the Grand Palais, The Champs D'Elysee (right down the middle), the Louvre, and the American Church in Paris.


I have taken cropped portions of the full-sized pano as well. Here is the Sacré Coeur:


And the National Opera of Paris (it's the tall building in the middle of the picture sitting at an angle with the pointy roof):


The Champs Elysees with the Louvre on the end. If you look very carefully you can also see the smaller arch de triomphe (du carouselle?) in the courtyard, so to speak, of the Louvre. It kind of looks like a huge front door:


Just to the right of the Louvre you can see the glass roof of the grand palais. If you look just above the left side of the roof you can see the two towers of Notre Dame and the steeple poking up between them. On the other side of the picture you can see the dome of the Senate building:


This picture also has three objects. The most obvious one is the tour Montparnasse, which the Parisians hate for obvious reasons. After it was built, Paris banned subsequent skyscrappers from being built in this part of town. To the lower left you can see the dome of the chapel at Les Invalides. Napoleon is buried there. In front of the dome is a spiky steeple. I'm quite sure that belongs to the American Church in Paris, the first American church on European soil. They still have services in English. Though I've never actually gone there myself, I've heard it is good. The building is very pretty, right on the bank of the Seine.